Tuesday, December 26, 2006

ELEGY FOR SADDAM HUSSEIN AND HIS PLACE IN HISTORY


The former Iraqi dictator was sentenced to death for the killing of 148 shittes in the central city of Dujail.

He never would have even dreamt that one day he would be sentenced to death like a plebeian by an Iraqi tribunal. At least Saddam Hussein addressing himself as the Iraqi premier hitherto does not suggest that. The gallows await Saddam after the appeals court upheld the decision of the tribunal which had come on the 5Th of November. He might be executed on any day in the next 30 days following the verdict. Saddam Hussein would probably be remembered for coming close to challenging the notoriety of Hitler and eventually ending up light years adrift of the Nazi dictator on all idiosyncrasies that dictators are made of . On a slightly frivolous note, he showed a lot of promise as a dictator but faded with time and history might have him as any other dictator, if at all. But I think many dictators like the Chilean dictator Picochet , who left for his hell based abode only a few weeks ago, will be just remembered in history as generic dictators who had all the characteristics of a dictator but failed to reach the acme of cruelty. Similarly there was nothing extraordinarily savage about Saddam Hussein either, that would have him a mention in the history books other than of course the hype that U.S.A was able to build around him. So, he will be remembered for that reason alone. A famous quasi dictator , referred to as a conqueror/general in a more dignified way, comes to mind and I write the coda of this piece/blog to be a quote by him as under

"HISTORY IS FABLES AGREED UPON"
-NAPOLEON BONAPARTE-